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“I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on ’t again I dare not” (2.2.65-67). Macbeth is now very nervous after committing the murder, and doesn’t want to go back to plant the daggers to frame the murder. He is already feeling unsure about this, but knows that it is part of his fate to do this. He cannot escape what the prophecy told him, and he has less control over his life and the decisions he makes.

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"Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast"(Shakespeare 2.2.50). Macbeth is starting to feel guilt and hear voices, most likely from all the victims he's murdered. This quote shows his mindset and what he would be willing to do to get to the top and conqure power.

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Lady Macbeth chastises Macbeth for going back on his plan to kill Duncan, “What beast was ’t/That made you break this enterprise to me?/When you durst do it, then you were a man/And to be more than what you were, you would/Be so much more the man” (Shakespeare 1.7.53-58). In this passage, Lady Macbeth is challenging Macbeth’s masculinity in an attempt to convince him to kill Duncan. She brings up a gender norm that was common in their time; that men should be the brave, ambitious ones, who are willing to do whatever it takes to be powerful. She claims that if Macbeth is unable to kill Duncan to achieve more power, he is not a man. Lady Macbeth is enforcing and manipulating the gender norms of the time to convince Macbeth to commit murder.

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"Help me hence, ho!" (Shakespeare 2.3.97) In this scene, Macduff is slightly suspicious of Macbeth, as he is rambling about how he killed the guards who supposedly murdered Duncan. Noticing this, Lady Macbeth pretends to faint to distract people. This is in spite of the fact that Lady Macbeth is the one who orchestrated the plan and executed it, being less squeamish than Macbeth. As a woman, Lady Macbeth is able to do this without seeming weak or overly suspicious. By utilizing the expectations of her gender to her advantage, she is able to avert suspicion away from Macbeth.

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“Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”(Shakespear 2.2.45-46)

This shows the Fear and anxiety Macbeth is going through. This Shows the consequences of his actions in that he has killed so he must go through the same pain for power.

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"Thou canst not say I did it" (Shakespeare 3.4.61).

In this quote, Macbeth is speaking to Banquo's ghost, and he is trying to explain that it was not his fault that Banquo died, because it was fated by the witch's prophecy. We see that Macbeth clearly thought that Banquo was bound to die as a  result of the prophecy, and that he did not make the choice that killed him. However, fate only decided the outcome because Macbeth chose to believe the prophecy and let his decisions become affected, meaning he is the reason his free will was lost.

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“Unsexy me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. make thick my blood.” (Shakespeare 1.5.31-33) this quote right here reveals gender effects your role because Lady MacBeth feels as if only a male could commit treachery due to women being to emotional.

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“Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch

thee” (Shakespeare 2.1. 44-46).

We know how Macbeth receives a prophecy from the witches saying that he will become king without fail. Although he thinks that it is fate, is it really? Everything that Macbeth has done to become king has been by himself, therefore does that mean that it was really fate for him to become king, or more free will? In this quote, Macbeth is asking himself if he could really murder Duncan. Although he is holding a dagger, in actuality, he is holding his future, and what he chooses to do with that dagger is what his future will become. Since he gets to choose what he gets to do with that dagger, does that mean that this is fate? No, it is free will. The witches have put a false prophecy in Macbeths head, more like a guide, for him to make his own decisions, and make his own path. So the main question is how much of "fate" is really involved in Macbeth's life.

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The power of man, for none of women born shall harm Macbeth”(Shakespeare 4.1.80-81).

The witches have been told to fix their mistake by Hecate, so they are giving Macbeth false information to make him not fear Macduff. Instead of looking into Macduff on his own, he has let the fate determined by the witch decide what he is going to do, and sacrificing his own free will.
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Ilana Reyes - How much control does one have over his/her life? 

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Ilana Reyes - How much control does one have over his/her life? 

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“Most royal sir, Fleance is ’scaped” (Shakespeare.3.4.21)

Macbeth knows that Banquo's sons are prophesied to take the spot as king from Macbeth, in an idea of fate. Macbeth decides to take matters into his own hands and arrange the death of both Banquo and Fleance, in order to escape the fate he seems to be subject to. But, while Banquo is easily murdered by the murderers, Fleance manages to escape and run away, avoiding the death Macbeth hoped for him. This brings back the idea of fate because even when Macbeth supposedly acted on free will, Fleance escaped, and him still being alive means he is still able to become king, and thus brings back how much of Macbeth's life is really fate?

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Where our desire is got without content.'Tis safer to be that which we destroy. Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy"(Shakespeare 3.2.5).This quote connects to the essential question of "What are the rewards and consequences of ambition?" Lady Macbeth explains that their desires of being king and queen have finally become a reality, but they are not content with themselves. Their ambition of the goal was so powerful that it lead to horrific acts which filled Lady Macbeth and Macbeth with guilt and anxiety. Their reward was becoming king and queen but their consequences are much bigger. The guilt that lives inside them will torture their minds forever and the anxiety of being caught will consume them. Although they got what they wanted they will never feel true peace again.

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Diana Chavez - #4.FATE VS. FREE WILL: How much control does one have over his/her life? 

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Diana Chavez - #4.FATE VS. FREE WILL: How much control does one have over his/her life? 

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-“Rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to th’ utterance” (Shakespeare 3.1.71-72). This quote connects to the essential question of free will and how much one has control over their life. Macbeth states that instead of watching fate play out he will challenge fate to battle and fight to death. This signifies that one's free will can be a factor in how they act and can cause them to fight against their fate but as we see later on in the play despite Macbeth's plea to fight and battle against fate; fate wins and ends up with himself and Lady Macbeth dead. Therefore, one can make decisions made off of their free will to try and get what they truly desire but fate will win in the end by affecting one's mind using apparitions or by controlling the atmosphere around  the person leading to fate rolling out. This connects to the theme that fate always wins despite ones will to change it and their desire to carve out their own path in life.

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¨Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed.—Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do
rouse¨(Shakespeare 3.3.51-60). This quote connects to the EQ, ¨What are the rewards and consequences of ambition?¨, because in the lines 58-60 it states that what ever happens to them in the mornings is good but when it comes to night time they fear the consequences of having people want revenge if they where to find out the killings Macbeth has done. It explains the benefits, which is Macbeth being able to stay with the role as king and the consequences of being frighten of someone els knowing all the bad Macbeth and his wife have been a part of.

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"We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She’ll close and be herself whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy."(3.2.15-25)
This quote relates to the consequences of ambition because it shows the endless cycle one places themselves in in the pursuit of ambition. Macbeth has committed all the awful acts to achieve his ambitions, but he acknowledges it was all pointless because it places him in another position. He also acknowledges the endless cycle when he refers to how it is better to be dead, because once ambition is attempted to be received there will never be peace again until death.

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TJ Lezcano-GENDER: How do gender roles affect one’s behavior?

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TJ Lezcano-GENDER: How do gender roles affect one’s behavior?

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“That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood”

(Shakespeare 1.5.31-33).

This quote connects to the gender roles EQ by showing that Lady Macbeth feels as if treachery can only be committed by a man, and not a woman. This reveals the gender roles of the time where people believed that certain emotional traits such as brutalness could only be attributed to one’s gender.

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What is the correlation between power and humanity?
“Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner, Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer  To add the death of you” (Shakespeare 4.3.207-210). This report of Macbeth's actions against Macduff details how Macbeth and his armies murdered Macduff's wife, children, and anyone else they could find at his castle. Throughout this story we see the extents Macbeth is willing to go to in order to maintain power become more and more inhumane. With this act especially, he proves that he has lost much of his humanity while he has gained power. It seems that Macbeth is willing to do anything in order to stay in power, even if he must lose however much humanity he has left in order to do it.

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Micah Kennedy- How do gender roles affect one’s behavior?

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Micah Kennedy- How do gender roles affect one’s behavior?

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“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”

(Shakespeare 1.5.40). Lady Macbeth asks to be unsexed in her soliloquy because she thinks as a man she could be even more helpful to Macbeth in carrying out the murder of King Duncan. This is because of the way society portrays women to be too emotional to perform significant tasks. Due to the gender roles in society Lady Macbeth felt as though she would be more competent to help with murder if she was a man.

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What are the rewards and consequences of ambition?
"Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it" (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5, lines 18-20). Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband and says that she believes that he has the ambition to be great--or king--but that he is not evil enough or ruthless enough to be king. Therefore, she says, she will supply him with enough ruthlessness so he will become great and king. Lady Macbeth is clearly more ambitious than her husband or at least she is far more willing to do whatever is required to achieve greatness. Macbeth himself wants to be king, but shrinks from what he has to do to become king. For both, however, they will end up dying, so the rewards of ruthless ambition are death.

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#1. POWER: What is the correlation between power and humanity? 

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#1. POWER: What is the correlation between power and humanity? 

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How does the author demonstrate power in this text? How is power imposed and to what extent?

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#2.AMBITION: What are the rewards and consequences of ambition?

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#2.AMBITION: What are the rewards and consequences of ambition?

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How does the author center  ambition in this text? How is ambition demonstrated by the main characters?

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#3.GENDER: How do gender roles affect one’s behavior?

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#3.GENDER: How do gender roles affect one’s behavior?

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What is Lady Macbeth's role in the text and how does her influence impact both the power dynamics and the ambitions of Macbeth? How does the author demonstrate this dynamic?

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#4.FATE VS. FREE WILL: How much control does one have over his/her life? 

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#4.FATE VS. FREE WILL: How much control does one have over his/her life? 

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Does fate or free impact the decisions the Macbeth's make throughout this play? How does Shakespeare illustrate this notion of fate and free will?